Placard



55 pattern.

Patented M y 21,1935 g 7 2,001,928

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application September 21, 1932, Serial No. 634,248 In Italy September 21, 1931 1 Claim. (01. 41-34) My invention relates to placards to be posted Figure shows the superimposed sheets cut in in a public place and reveals a new system for accordance with the pattern, it being understood their production different from the typographical that each of the separate parts shown in Figure and lithographical proceeding hitherto used and 3' serve as patterns for cutting the sheets. 5 which cannot be considered as rational, neither Figure 6 shows the completed placard made up 5 from a technical nor an economical point of view. by securing thereon the form resulting from the Indeed the typographical technic is limited in use of the patterns in cutting the sheets to proits means created with the object of obtaining a vide a placard or several such placards in exact great number of copies of small size and generally accordance with the original sketch, differing 10 of only three colours, and the lithography also is therefrom'only as to size or color or material as 10 limited owing to the necessity of using a limestone may be indicated. for each colour and by the size of the stones. Asmall sketch I of the placard to bereproduced These two technics are of such common use and isenlarged as at 2 by means of a projecting apthe fat and glossy appearance of the inks used paratus to the size of the placard desired. From gives an effect of such ordinary nature, contrary this enlargement the shapes for the back-ground, 15 to artistic sense, that the chief scope of placards the single letters and the elements 3 composing which is to attract the attention of the publicthe placard and having the same colour are made isnotattained. Furthermorethesesystemsrequire with cardboard, sheet-metal and other material much time and therefore they are not adapted to and these forms 4 are each placed on a small pile public advertising, as the placards must often be of sheets 5, strips, sheet-metal of material and 20 created and changed within a short time. colour corresponding to the same effect which From an economical standpoint the two said this element produces in the project, tracing for systems become rational only for editions of some example, the edges of the said forms with a knife thousands of copies. But it is well known that or with scissors and cutting at one time the whole placards are required in a much minor number pile which is composed of the number of sheets 25 i and often specially if the placards are of a very allowed by the kind of material used (for example great size, they'are reproduced in a few copies ten sheets of paper at one time), and producing only, for which the reproduction by typographical in such a way the required number of each eleor lithographical means is very irrational. ment indicated at 6, pasting or fixing in any way The placard and. the system of producing it, these elements on a support as indicated at l, for 30 according to the invention, have not these techexample cardboard, the one on the other or beside nical and economical disadvantages. the other, according to the effect or the relievo The invention consists essentially in superposone wishes to produce. If the placards to be ing by layers and in fixing in any Way (instead of posted on the wall or on boards are of very large printing lithographing, painting etc.) on a supsize they are opportunely subdivided in more 35 port of any chosen materials, the one on the sheets, choosing as a support not cardboard but other and beside the other, the single graphical paper or cloth and composing the single sheets on and colouristic elements of the subject and of the the place of application. It will be understood m d 0f t tc at i o say of the W ole that the single piles of sheets 5 on whichjthe p j c Gut taken m p ts and the shape of each element isput can be composed by 0 like V y in Substance 0010111, Composing n sheets of different colour and in this way it is such a Way a eproduction in relievo. possible to change the colours from one placard The invention is illustrated in the accompanyto the other, without more cost or labour. ing d wing, in which: The advantages of the proceedings, according u e 1 is V w Of the O iginal sketch. to the invention, consist in the greater clearness 5 u e 2 s a w Of an enlargement of e of the separating lines between the various elesketch. ments placed the one on the other, clearness due Figure 3 shows the various patterns made by to the fact that the lines are cut out by a bladedividing the enlargement to produce the several in the more pronounced contrasts, due to the parts indicated. difference between the materials used, such as 50 t Figure 4 is a perspective view illustrating the cloth and paper of mat surface (an effect not obapplication of one of the patterns on a pile of tainable byprinting) besides materials of a glossy superimposed sheets to permit simultaneous cutsurface,in the amazing effects of combination ting of all of the sheets in accordance with the between metallized paper, sprinkled paper, velvet V paper, photography, phosphorescent materials ete.-in the new relievo efiects,in the possibility of varying the colours and the effects from one placard to the other Without incurring extra expense or labour,-in the possibility of producing economically even one single p1acard,in the possibility of combining twenty and even more different colours or effects.

What I claim is:

A method of producing placard reproductions, consisting in making a sketch of the placard to be reproduced, enlarging the sketch to the size of the desired reproduction, dividing the enlargement into its elements of equal color and light effect, forming patterns corresponding to the shapes of the elements as divided, superimposing the patterns on a pile of sheets of materials of different colors and efiects, cutting the sheets in accordance with the pattern in a single operation, and fixing the cutouts on a support in correspondence with the arrangement of the similar elements in the sketch.

' ANTONINO ALFANO. 

